[argd678]

This is cutting it close to say microservice, it’s just two services and they don’t fan out or have a lot of the complexity that causes the down sides; such as fan outs that require tracing to debug, requires too many services to startup on your laptop for dev, load testing and tuning, common libraries that cause systemic failures or require world rebuilds when modified, service to service authentication...

[seperman]

This is a very simplified version of our architecture just for the purpose of this article. We have exactly 83 micro-services currently.